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• Norway police see attacker as probably alone (Reuters)
• Children abandoned on east Africa's "roads of death" (Reuters)
• Forensic experts attack Amanda Knox trial evidence (Reuters)
• Strauss-Kahn's accuser: Schemer or immigrant survivor? (Reuters)
• U.N. envoy, rebels say no Libya peace plan yet (Reuters)
• Egypt's Generals Lay Down the (Electoral) Law (Time.com)
• Kosovo launches Serbia border crossings takeover (AP)
• Libyan government shows reporters NATO bomb sites (AP)
• Delta Airlines Belize flight searched after threat (AP)
• UN races to get food to hungry Somali refugees (AP)
• China sub makes first dive to below 5,000m: report (AFP)
• Opposition leader Layton steps down to battle cancer (Reuters)
• Rare Captain Bligh medals under hammer in Australia (AFP)
• Norway massacre: Breivik manifesto attempts to woo India's Hindu nationalists (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Breivik's Norway Attacks: Extremism in a Tolerant Region (Time.com)
• Syria introduces law allowing independent political parties (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Madagascar at mercy of neo-colonial fishing plunder (OneWorld.net)

Norway police see attacker as probably alone (Reuters) Posted: 25 Jul 2011 03:41 PM PDT Reuters - Norway's police believe Anders Behring Breivik probably acted alone in killing 76 people last Friday, and Norwegians united in revulsion against the worst attack in the Nordic nation since World War Two.

Children abandoned on east Africa's "roads of death" (Reuters) Posted: 25 Jul 2011 10:01 AM PDT Reuters - Desperate Somali mothers are abandoning their dying children by the roadside as they travel to overwhelmed emergency food centers in drought-hit eastern Africa, U.N. aid officials said Monday.

Forensic experts attack Amanda Knox trial evidence (Reuters) Posted: 25 Jul 2011 11:46 AM PDT Reuters - Independent forensic experts took the stand on Monday to attack key pieces of evidence used to convict U.S. student Amanda Knox of the murder of her British roommate in the Italian city of Perugia in 2007.

Strauss-Kahn's accuser: Schemer or immigrant survivor? (Reuters) Posted: 25 Jul 2011 12:01 PM PDT Reuters - First she was portrayed as a model of virtue who was violated by a rich and powerful man.

U.N. envoy, rebels say no Libya peace plan yet (Reuters) Posted: 25 Jul 2011 01:09 PM PDT Reuters - The U.N. envoy to Libya and the Benghazi-based rebel council discussed on Monday ideas for ending the civil war, but said a firm initiative had yet to take shape.

Egypt's Generals Lay Down the (Electoral) Law (Time.com) Posted: 25 Jul 2011 02:50 PM PDT Time.com - Ignoring the clamor of competing political parties, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces is determining the pace and content of the post-Mubarak transition

Kosovo launches Serbia border crossings takeover (AP) Posted: 25 Jul 2011 04:08 PM PDT AP - Kosovo's Interior Minister Bajram Rexhepi says special police units have been deployed to the Serb-run northern part of the country in an ongoing attempt to take control over two disputed border crossings with Serbia.

Libyan government shows reporters NATO bomb sites (AP) Posted: 25 Jul 2011 04:03 PM PDT AP - The Libyan government showed foreign journalists on Monday a destroyed flu clinic and food warehouses it said had been hit earlier in the day by NATO airstrikes, killing eight people.

Delta Airlines Belize flight searched after threat (AP) Posted: 25 Jul 2011 02:59 PM PDT AP - A Delta Airlines flight from Atlanta, Georgia, to Belize was searched by a police bomb squad at Belize's Philip Goldson International Airport Monday after the pilot reported suspicious activity by a passenger and "the possibility of a bomb threat."

UN races to get food to hungry Somali refugees (AP) Posted: 25 Jul 2011 12:22 PM PDT AP - The U.N. will airlift emergency rations this week to parts of drought-ravaged Somalia that militants banned it from more than two years ago — a crisis intervention to keep hungry refugees from dying along what an official calls the "roads of death."

China sub makes first dive to below 5,000m: report (AFP) Posted: 25 Jul 2011 03:59 PM PDT AFP - A Chinese submersible conducted the country's deepest manned dive ever Tuesday, state media reported, as it seeks to exploit the vast resources of the ocean floor.

Opposition leader Layton steps down to battle cancer (Reuters) Posted: 25 Jul 2011 01:07 PM PDT Reuters - The leader of Canada's main opposition party, limping heavily and looking pale and drawn, said on Monday he would step down temporarily because of cancer but vowed to return once Parliament resumes in mid-September.

Rare Captain Bligh medals under hammer in Australia (AFP) Posted: 25 Jul 2011 09:31 AM PDT AFP - Two "extremely rare" gold medals awarded to Captain William Bligh of HMS Bounty fame will be auctioned in Melbourne this week in one of the most significant maritime history offerings in recent years.

Norway massacre: Breivik manifesto attempts to woo India's Hindu nationalists (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 25 Jul 2011 11:50 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - The Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik writes in a manifesto that he acquired some 8,000 e-mail addresses of “cultural conservatives” not just across Europe but North America, Australia, South Africa, Armenia, Israel, and India â€" ensuring scrutiny of anti-Muslim groups far beyond Europe.

Breivik's Norway Attacks: Extremism in a Tolerant Region (Time.com) Posted: 25 Jul 2011 02:50 PM PDT Time.com - With his slaughter of a group of Labour Party youth, Anders Behring Breivik was acting on extremist ideologies that are becoming surprisingly popular in traditionally tolerant Scandinavia

Syria introduces law allowing independent political parties (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 25 Jul 2011 11:25 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's cabinet yesterday approved a bill to allow independent political parties other than the Baath Party, which has ruled the country since 1963.

Madagascar at mercy of neo-colonial fishing plunder (OneWorld.net) Posted: 25 Jul 2011 11:39 AM PDT OneWorld.net - July 25 (OneWorld.net) - A UN human rights mission to Madagascar has alleged that European and Asian exploitation of the island's fishing grounds is comparable to the pillage of African resources by 19th century imperialists.

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